Dam Failure Concepts and Modeling
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- Languages: English
- Publish Date: 2017-10-12
- Skill Level: 1
- Completion Time: 1.00 - 1.25 h
- Includes Audio: no
- Required Plugins: none
- Topics:
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This lesson provides an in-depth case study to illustrate principles of dam failure modeling and examines some of the critical data inputs and outputs. Output is provided from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers HEC-RAS model for simulated failures of a large dam. Several simulations are presented that show the impact from varying the size of the breach and the time it takes the breach to fully develop. The lesson also summarizes several infamous large dam failures from around the world and the impacts from other factors are such as reservoir shape and size, the age of the dam, and the material used to construct the dam.
